Guadalupe de la mata Presentation eu china trade project Microfinance in the EU
1. 欧盟小额贷款经验研讨会
EU-China Trade Project II Workshop on
Microfinance in the EU
2012 年 4 月 26-27 日, 成都
26-27 April 2012, Chengdu
承办:中国-欧盟世贸项目(二期)
Supported by: The EU-China Trade Project (II)
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3. 目录
Table of Contents
关于中国-欧盟世贸项目(二期) 1
About the EU‐China Trade Project (II) 2
日程 3
Agenda
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演讲者介绍 5
About the Speakers 7
演讲材料
Presentations
欧盟多边金融机构在农村金融农村小微信贷的角色
社会创新改进中心主任 Guadalupe de la Mata
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Role of EU Multilateral Institutions in Microfinance
Guadalupe de la Mata, Director, Centre of Innovation for Social Change
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欧洲小额信贷法律和监管框架
SOFI 执行董事 Christophe Guene Michele Bang
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Microfinance in the European Union: Legislative Frameworks
Christophe Guene, Executive Director, SOFI asbl
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16. Role of EU Multilateral
Institutions in Microfinance
Instruments and Schemes
Centre of Innovation for Social Change
(CISC)
www.innovationforsocialchange.org
Microfinance in Europe
Lack of access to finance in the rural sectorLack of access to finance in the rural sector
Microfinance as a tool to improve access to finance in rural areasMicrofinance as a tool to improve access to finance in rural areas
Improving access to finance in rural areas: EU IFIS´s strategyImproving access to finance in rural areas: EU IFIS´s strategy
Financial instruments and institutionsFinancial instruments and institutions
Case studies and examplesCase studies and examples
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17. Recurrently Insufficient Access to Rural finance in
the region
Informal
savings
& credit
mechanisms
Commercial
Banks
Exist but are
insufficient
Cannot adapt
their financial
products to the
needs of poor
and isolated
clients
Official
agricultural
credit
institutions
Problems of
interference and
low repayment
rates is
discouraging
Integrated
projects with
credit
component
Disappointing
results in terms
of repayment,
sustainability
and impact
Lack of access to capital in the rural sector
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Solution: supporting microfinance institutions
Small amounts of
loans and savings
Short loan terms
Payment schedules
featuring frequent
instalments (or
frequent deposits)
High interest rates on
credit
Easy access to the
microfinance
intermediary
Simple application
forms which are easy
to complete
Short processing
periods
The availability of
repeat loans in higher
amounts for clients
who pay on time
No collateral is
required contrary to
formal banking
practices.
Microfinance as a discipline has created financial products and services that
are packaged in a way that enables low‐income people to become clients
of a banking intermediary.
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19. EU Access to finance in the rural sector: Strategy
Strategy:Improve
access to finance for
rural enterprises by
supporting
Strategy:Improve
access to finance for
rural enterprises by
supporting
local specialised
financial institutions
local specialised
financial institutions
Microfinance
investment vehicles
Microfinance
investment vehicles
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Mechanisms
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Rural private sector
Investment
Vehicles
IFIS and Donors
Governments
Individual
investors
Institutional
Investors
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21. Institutions
EU rural finance
outside Europe
EU rural finance
outside Europe
European
Investment Bank
European Bank for
Reconstruction
and Development
EU rural finance
in Europe
EU rural finance
in Europe
European
Investment Fund
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1. The European Investment Bank (EIB)
Governance
•Board of Governors – EU Finance Ministers
•Board of Directors ‐ Member States & European
Commission
•Management Committee –EIB’s executive body
•Audit Committee – independent, non‐resident
Objectives
•Within the Union:
•Cohesion and convergence
•Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
•Environmental sustainability
•Innovation 2010 Initiative (i2i)
•Trans‐European Networks (TENs)
•Sustainable, competitive and secure energy
•Outside the Union:
•Private sector development
•Infrastructure development
•Security of energy supply
•Environmental sustainability
•Support for EU presence in Asia and Latin
America via Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Subsidiary: EIF (European Investment Fund)
European Union’s long‐term lending bank set up in 1958 by the Treaty of Rome.
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24. 2. European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development
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• 1994 – 2009: € 1.5 billion invested
• Largest MSME investor in the region (31%)
• Total current portfolio: €767 m
• Average loan amount: €4,700
• 109 intermediaries :
• 62 commercial banks
• 34 non bank MFIs
• 13 Microfinance bank
• Investment in a Regional Fund (EFSE)
EBRD Microfinance portfolio
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25. 3. The European Investment Fund (EIF)
Owned by:
• EIB
• European
Commission
• Other
European
financial
institutions
Resources:
• Own funds –
subscribed
capital
• EU
programmes
• Trust
operations
(EIB, German
Government)
2007 figures
(signatures):
• Venture capital
funds: EUR
521m
• Guarantee
operations:
EUR 1397m
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How does it work?
www.innovationforsocialchange.org
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Microfinance in the
EU: Legislative
Frameworks
Chengdu
26 April 2012
Christophe Guene
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overview
I. Policy framework
II. Microfinance and Rural development
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I. Policy Framework
The EU policy frameworks
and their effects on
microfinance
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Policy frameworks with an impact on
microfinance in the EU
1. Regulatory policy
EU Banking regulation
EU Consumer protection
regulation
EU Competition regulation
1. Regulatory policy
National Banking regulation
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2. Budgetary policy
European Regional
Development Fund
European Social Fund
Eur. Small Enterprise Policy
(European Rural Development
Fund)
2. Budgetary policy
(see national programming of
EU Funds)
EU Level Member State Level
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The EU Banking Regulation
Objectives:
A “competitive level playing field” for financial services
Secure people’s savings
(Reduce over-banking)
Measures:
Single Banking Status (and single supervision)
Bank monopoly on deposits
High entrance hurdle (€ 5 mln minimum capital)
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The National Banking Regulation
(As a general rule, EU regulations form the minimum standard
that applies to all Member States. Member States are allowed to
add stricter rules at their levels.)
In addition to the Bank monopoly on deposits, about 10 EU
Member States have added a bank monopoly on credits, i.e. only
banks (independent of the nature of their funds) are allowed to
deliver credits: this is the case in …
Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Greece, Austria, Finland, the
Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Denmark
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Categorisation of EU Member States
by microfinance regulation
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Member States with a bank
monopoly on deposits and on credit
Member States with a bank monopoly on
deposits only
- Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain,
Denmark, Sweden, Greece, Finland …
- Countries where MF is most difficult to
establish.
- In these countries microfinance is …
1. non existent, or
2. practiced through bank partnerships or
3. practiced by Government institutions
- Supervision : by normal banking authority
- Belgium, Italy, UK, Ireland, Poland, Hungary,
Slovakia, France …
- The practice of microcredit as a non-bank is
possible either without any specific authorisation
(Belgium, UK, Ireland …) or under a specific
legal status only (Italy, France, …)
- Supervision: either no supervision or by Central
Bank when specific status required
Exemptions:
-Countries with Microcredit laws allowing
specific MFIs to practice credit: Romania,
Portugal
-Supervision: Central Bank (Romania)
Exemptions:
-Countries with exemptions from the EU banking
law for credit unions (Ireland, UK, Poland, Latvia,
Estonia)
-Supervision: mainly self-supervised combined with
Central Authority supervision
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The EU Consumer Protection
Regulation
Contents:
Prescribes the minimum information requirements of credit
products and the standard interest calculation method to make
credit products comparable.
National transposition:
The majority of the Member States have added interest rate
ceilings in their national consumer protection laws. These
ceilings vary by type of loan products and are subject to
adjustments depending on economic context.
Scope:
The focus of this legislation however is on consumer loans, not
on loans for professional purpose, i.e. they do not a priori apply
on microcredits.
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The EU Consumer Protection
Regulation
Cases where the consumer protection regulation applies
nevertheless on microcredits:
in the case of Microfinance institutions (MFIs) that offer family
loans (such as in Italy and in Spain) that are assimilated to
consumer loans;
In the case of MFIs that provide personal loans that don’t
distinguish the purpose of the loan (such as with credit unions);
In the case of Member States that decide that consumer
protections apply also to the delivery of microcredits (as
prescribed in the microfinance law in Romania);
In the case of the voluntary adoption of these standards by
specific MFIs or MFI networks (such as in Germany);
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Subsidies
Competition Regulation:
Subsidies are exposed to “State-Aid Rules” that are intended to
limit market distortions;
Nature of subsidies:
For microfinance this means that direct institutional support is not
allowed. Subsidies are intended for the “final beneficiaries”.
Typical support is in the form of loan capital, guarantees,
technical assistance for the MFI and training and accompanying
measures for credit beneficiaries.
In the case of loan capital, the MFI is granted a limited
percentage to cover its running costs.
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Subsidies
Level of subsidies:
The percentage of the subsidies depends on the level of market
failure: it will be higher for regions that are considered to be
lagging behind (e.g. the new Member States) or in structural
difficulty (crises areas, remote areas …) or for target groups
considered to be particularly disadvantaged.
Depending on whether microfinance follows a business creation
agenda or a social inclusion agenda, subsidies can vary from
15% to 85%.
Funds:
Among the funds available, some are centrally managed and
directly targeted at supporting MFIs. The larger funds however
(e.g. the Regional Development Fund and the Social Fund) are
managed by the Member States but are not specifically designed
for microfinance. They are very unevenly used across the EU
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II. Micro and rural
finance in the EU
Factors of success for past
European rural finance and
new microfinance
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Elements that have contributed to
rural (micro-) finance in Europe
1. The Raiffeisen cooperative model
A self-help model: allows people to easily start their own financial
institution if they are not served well by other ones
Capitalisation: the cooperative raises its own funds from its
members and it capitalises its members in the same process and
generates strong governance links.
Local governance: managers are accountable to their members.
Relationship finance: credits are not based on the project alone,
but on all assets of the person, including his / her personal
qualities.
Local economy: the coop recycles local capital back into the local
economy and strengthens both the productive capacity and the
demand potential.
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Elements that have contributed to
rural (micro-) finance in Europe
2. Competition
The co-existence of several banking networks (credit coops,
savings institutions, communal banks, post-office banks,), also in
the rural areas, has kept each of these networks disciplined and
responsive to rural needs.
3. Professionalisation
Local financial institutions were connected to competency
networks or professional federations to keep their management
professional and informed about new risks and opportunities.
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Elements that have contributed to
rural (micro-) finance in Europe
4. Mitigation of rural risks
Cooperatives in particular have helped to pool resources
(machines, transport, storage …) to reduce market risks for their
members.
The EU has from the 1960s on played an important role to
stabilise agricultural markets and secure farmers by guaranteeing
minimum prices and by covering extreme climate hazards.
5. Rural-urban mix
Financially connecting the rural world with the urban world has
been crucial to reduce the financial fluctuations (and risks) linked
to the agricultural production cycle.
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New microfinance and agriculture
Focus on Agriculture is very limited
Microcredits are too small for significant agricultural investments
Agriculture considered too risky in itself
Land property and real estate is too expensive to take as
collateral for small loans
Agricultural sector is very limited in the majority of the Member
States
Cooperative activities (who are better suited for rural areas) are
legally limited by new banking regulation
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New microfinance and agriculture
Focus on Rural Development:
In agriculture, focus on high added value crops (cut flowers, early
season vegetables and fruits …) and tradable livestock (cattle,
poultry …);
Finance for small agricultural transformation and added-value
investments (machines, greenhouses, vehicles, …);
Finance for diversification activities (rural tourism, small
shops…);
Combination of finance with public policy services (training of
farmers or of rural women, development of new activity sectors
…);
Development of savings-based finance.
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IT innovations for rural finance
IT innovations are not as developed as on other
continents due to fairly high penetration of the banking
sector;
Some innovations :
Mobile SMS communications to improve loan repayments
(France, Germany …)
Peer-to-peer lending and crowd-financing via internet platforms
(France, Germany, UK, Austria …)
Microcredit linked to transactions made via local e-currencies.
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